BEST OF (# 64 of 518) FAMOUS HEROES & FOLK LEGENDS FROM BUFORD PUSSER (WALKING TALL) TO PAUL BUNYAN
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today we cover the stories of 1),Kokopelli, the Hopi Indian legend, 2.) Grutte Pier, the 16th century Frisian folk hero who exacted revenge upon an entire nation for the loss of his family, 3) Buford Pusser, the sheriff who wouldn't back down against organized crime in his county, whose wife was killed in a drive by shooting, and who promised and enacted revenge upon the criminals who had done it, 4) Finn McCool, the legendary Giant who created the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, 5.) Paul Bunyan and his Blue Ox Babe, the legend of the American northwoods, 6),"Coyote in Indian legend, 7) Anansi, the spider who gives us the magic or storytelling, 8), and Australia's "bad guy" folk hero- Ned Kelly, whose bullet proof suit of armor stopped bullets but couldn't prevent his being hanged for murder.
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one heroes, legends, histories, and mysteries. |
| 0:33.9 | Today's story is titled, 1001's famous folk heroes and legends, part one. |
| 0:40.8 | And I can already tell from the research I've been doing for this episode |
| 0:43.9 | that this is going to be a really fun one to do |
| 0:46.7 | because it covers every corner of the world |
| 0:49.5 | and picks up three categories on our show, |
| 0:52.3 | those being heroes, legends, and histories, |
| 0:55.9 | and we'll no doubt add a few mythological mysteries along the way. |
| 1:00.5 | What is a folk hero, you ask? I think we all have different answers. |
| 1:05.7 | As a folk hero, can be a real hero, a fictional hero, or a mythological hero, |
| 1:12.5 | and one thing they have in common is that their name, their personality, and their deeds have become embedded in the consciousness |
| 1:17.8 | of a people or culture, and they're often thought of and mentioned reverently in folk songs, |
| 1:23.3 | stories and tales, sometimes tall tales that seem to grow with time. |
| 1:28.9 | We'll start today with a mythological hero, a little guy with a curved back wearing a few |
| 1:34.5 | feathers on his head and playing a flute. Someone, we know not who, scratched his image on the |
| 1:40.8 | side of a rock a few thousand years ago, and since then he's appeared on |
| 1:44.5 | everything from shirts to pottery to golf balls. His name is Cocapelli, and he's a legend. |
| 1:52.9 | But folk legends aren't always good guys or heroes. One case in point today, being the story |
| 1:58.9 | of Australia's folk hero Ned Kelly, |
| 2:01.6 | who committed all kinds of crimes, but ended up being accepted, if not idolized, |
| 2:06.5 | by the people who believed that he was standing up against what was considered at that time |
| 2:11.0 | a brutal authority, brutal to the down and out. |
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